Commentary for Gittin 142:16

אי הכי עד שיאמר אמרו מיבעי ליה

Read now the later clause: UNLESS HE HAS SAID TO THE SCRIBE, 'WRITE' AND TO THE WITNESSES 'SIGN'. This brings us round to the view of R. Jose who said that verbal instructions cannot be entrusted to an agent. Are we to say then that the first clause follows R. Meir and the second R. Jose? — Yes; the first follows R. Meir and the second R. Jose. Abaye, however, said: The whole follows R. Meir, and we are dealing here [in the last clause] with the case where he did not say 'give'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., in such a case the Get is invalid unless he tells the scribe etc. ');">¹⁴</span>

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